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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Nigerian Jailed In UK For Human Trafficking

Odosa Usiobaifo being led to jail

A Nigerian has been jailed for 14 years in UK for human trafficking after a four-week long trial, DailyMail of London reports.

Odosa
Usiobaifo, 35, who resided in Enfield, north London, was arraigned in
Isleworth Crown Court in the UK, for ‘significant’ organised crime gang
trafficking of young women for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

The gang was notorious for trafficking young girls via London to work as prostitutes in mainland Europe.

According
to DailyMail, Usiobaifo was arrested after two Nigerian girls missing
from local authority care in London were given false passports and
tickets and placed on a flight to Spain.

He was accused of collecting the girls from a pre-arranged meeting
point before they were given the false documents and put on the flight.

The
court heard that the girls, aged 14 and 15 at the time, had previously
been stopped by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport separately on
17 September and 23 November 2011 for using false passports which
indicated they were adults.

They had arrived on flights from Lagos, Nigeria, and were attempting to travel to Paris.

The
police later knew that the girls were being trafficked to mainland
Europe for prostitution after they were interviewed by the Serious
Organised Crime Agency’s Vulnerable Persons Team.

The jury found Usiobaifo guilty of all charges but
acquitted Igha of trafficking. They failed to reach a verdict on a
charge of conspiring to facilitate against Igha.

Meanwhile, the
girls were placed in local authority care but on 6 April, 2012 were
reported missing to Sussex Police by their respective foster homes.

One
of the girls was refused entry to Spain and returned to the UK, where
she remains in the care of the UK authorities while the other girl
passed through Spanish border controls and was still missing.